Justice

The Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa & Polynesia

Select topics to browse

Close

New Interchurch Bioethics Council website

By / 7 November 2010

Have you ever asked yourself how Christians can respond ethically to issues such as organ donation, genetic modification, euthanasia, reproductive technologies, and climate change? It’s these type of questions that the InterChurch Bioethics Council (ICBC) wants the wider church to be able to think about, and its new website (www.interchurchbioethics.org.nz) provides a range of information, study guides and discussion resources about these and other issues.

Established in 2002 as the “Interchurch Commission on Genetic Engineering”, the ICBC was relaunched in 2003 and its scope of interest expanded to include the spiritual, ethical and cultural dimensions of biotechnology and its consequences in Aotearoa New Zealand. The ICBC is a collaborative body supported by the Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches of Aotearoa New Zealand, whose members have between them considerable expertise and knowledge in science, ethics, theology, medicine and education including tangata whenua perspectives on these matters.

We invite you to come and explore the website and its resources, so those within the New Zealand church can speak to these important issues.

Look under Resources on the website for the following study resources prepared by the ICBC:

Where Do We Stand?
A resource on the lifting of the moratorium on genetically modified organisms in New Zealand.

Making Good Decisions in Biotechnology: Stem Cell Research, Cloning and Genetic Information.
A resource on how Christians can think ethically about these issues in biotechnology.

Euthanasia: Unethical Intervention or Death with Dignity?
A resource looking at a Christian response to euthanasia.

Real, Urgent, and Personal: A Christian Approach to Global Climate Change.
A resource looking at global climate change and how Christians can respond.

Facebook comments:

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

About us

This site is run by the Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church.

We seek to nurture justice spirituality and imagination, and engage in advocacy in all areas of life, overcoming poverty and transforming violence.

We encourage people to think and live “justly”, and emphasise debate and action on local, national and global issues.

Although we are Anglican, our vision isn’t so much about being Anglican. It’s about living justly. Justice is about how you live your life, and being just where we are. Working together, we can all flourish.

×

Just Booklets Mailing List

Just Booklets produced by the Justice Commission appear as booklets  and study guides around a variety of important and engaging topics – food, gardening, peace, lignite, with many more to come. From now on, they will be coming directly to you.

Just Living Booklets are subscription-only publications, so if you or your church want copies, sign up! There is no charge. Simple as that.

You might like to consider becoming a contact person/distributor to help raise awareness of Just Booklets  in your church or organisation.If you have an idea for a booklet, or even the desire to write. We seek to draw upon the expertise of the whole church. If you’d like to share your story about some aspect of justice or injustice, or some story about your passions and/or your life, email or call Anthony.